[Sca-cooks] Scappi

[Cindy M. Renfrow]

Hello. Please have a look at the list of works in progress:
http://members.aol.com/renfrowcm/msproj.html

Feel free to add your info.

Also, (you & anyone else interested in transcription/translation projects)
please visit http://www.thousandeggs.com/prop.html for info on a NON-SCA
project to establish an online culinary history library.

Regards,

Cindy

>I recently got my copy of the new Scappi reprint (Thanks Devra) and
>have just begun to look at it.  I don't know Italian other than musical
>terms and a few art songs from college days, but I "interpret" info &
>code for a living, and have some French and Latin.  Between that,
>Babelfish (what an entertaining tool!) and an Italian dictionary,
>translating at least some of the hundreds of recipes is doable, but
>slow. So this is going to be a...leisurely...project.  Is anyone else
>on the list working on Scappi?    Any suggestions from the experienced
>translators among us?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Tara